Friday, 30 March 2012

FIFA To Change Investigation Technique

FIFA
will change the way it investigates corruption and is prepared to
examine any "credible" evidence of past wrongdoing, president Sepp Blatter said Today.

Hailing a "historic day for FIFA's reform process" after a series of scandals, Blatter said it would revamp its ethics committee to create separate investigating and prosecuting units with new, independent leaders.

Blatter said the proposal presented by FIFA's anti-corruption adviser Mark Pieth got strong backing from his executive committee, some of whom have recently been cleared of corruption allegations by the existing — and often maligned — ethics body.

"Unanimously
they agreed to this new approach in our, let's say, efforts for more
transparency and integrity," Blatter said at a news conference
announcing efforts in a promised two-year drive to clean up the world
soccer body.